Learn how to list YUM repositories in RHEL / CentOS. This how-to guide includes various commands along with examples to check details about repositories and their packages in Red Hat systems.
YUM (Yellow dog Updater Modified) is a package management tool in Red Hat Linux and its variants like CentOS. In this article, we will walk you through several commands which will be useful for you to get details of YUM repositories in RHEL.
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Without any further delay, let’s see a list of commands and their example outputs.
List YUM repositories
Run command yum repolist and it will show you all repositories configured under YUM and enabled for use on that server. To view, disabled repositories or all repositories refer below section in this article.
[root@kerneltalks ~]# yum repolist Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb, search-disabled-repos repo id repo name status *epel/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64 12,448 rhui-REGION-client-config-server-7/x86_64 Red Hat Update Infrastructure 2.0 Client Configuration Server 7 2 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (RPMs) 17,881 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-rh-common/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 RH Common (RPMs) 231 rsawaroha rsaw aroha rpms for Fedora/RHEL6+ 19 repolist: 30,581
In the above output, you can see the repo list with repo id, repo name, and status. You can see we have EPEL repo configured (repo id epel/x86_64) on the server. Also, last repo rsawaroha we added for installation of xsos tool used to read sosreport.
What is the status column in yum repolist ?
Last column of yum repolist output is status which has numbers in it. You might be wondering, what is the meaning of status numbers in yum repolist?
They are a number of packages included in the respective repository! If you see a number like XXXX+N i.e. followed by + sign and another number then it means that the repository has XXXX number of packages available for installation and N number of packages are excluded.
List details of YUM repositories
Each repositories details like name, id, number of packages available, total size, link details, timestamps, etc can be viewed by using verbose mode. Use -v switch with yum repolist to view repositories details.
[root@kerneltalks ~]# yum -v repolist Not loading "rhnplugin" plugin, as it is disabled Loading "amazon-id" plugin Not loading "product-id" plugin, as it is disabled Loading "rhui-lb" plugin Loading "search-disabled-repos" plugin Not loading "subscription-manager" plugin, as it is disabled Config time: 0.048 Yum version: 3.4.3 mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/supplementary/os mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/extras/os mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/rh-common/debug mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/supplementary/debug mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/rhscl/1/debug mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/rhui-client-config/rhel/server/7/x86_64/os mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/rhscl/1/source/SRPMS mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/rhscl/1/os mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/source/SRPMS mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/extras/debug mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/optional/source/SRPMS mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/optional/debug mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/supplementary/source/SRPMS mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/debug mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/optional/os mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/extras/source/SRPMS mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/rh-common/os mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/rh-common/source/SRPMS mirrorlist: https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/os Setting up Package Sacks pkgsack time: 0.009 Repo-id : epel/x86_64 Repo-name : Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64 Repo-revision: 1515267354 Repo-updated : Sat Jan 6 19:58:06 2018 Repo-pkgs : 12,448 Repo-size : 11 G Repo-metalink: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=x86_64 Updated : Mon Jan 8 15:45:02 2018 Repo-baseurl : http://mirror.sjc02.svwh.net/fedora-epel/6/x86_64/ (43 more) Repo-expire : 21,600 second(s) (last: Mon Jan 8 19:23:12 2018) Filter : read-only:present Repo-filename: /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo Repo-id : rhui-REGION-client-config-server-7/x86_64 Repo-name : Red Hat Update Infrastructure 2.0 Client Configuration Server 7 Repo-revision: 1509723523 Repo-updated : Fri Nov 3 15:38:43 2017 Repo-pkgs : 2 Repo-size : 106 k Repo-mirrors : https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/rhui-client-config/rhel/server/7/x86_64/os Repo-baseurl : https://rhui2-cds02.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/repos//rhui-client-config/rhel/server/7/x86_64/os/ (1 more) Repo-expire : 21,600 second(s) (last: Mon Jan 8 19:23:13 2018) Filter : read-only:present Repo-filename: /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui-client-config.repo Repo-id : rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases/7Server/x86_64 Repo-name : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (RPMs) Repo-revision: 1515106250 Repo-updated : Thu Jan 4 22:50:49 2018 Repo-pkgs : 17,881 Repo-size : 24 G Repo-mirrors : https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/os Repo-baseurl : https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/repos//content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/os/ (1 more) Repo-expire : 21,600 second(s) (last: Mon Jan 8 19:23:13 2018) Filter : read-only:present Repo-filename: /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui.repo Repo-id : rhui-REGION-rhel-server-rh-common/7Server/x86_64 Repo-name : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 RH Common (RPMs) Repo-revision: 1513002956 Repo-updated : Mon Dec 11 14:35:56 2017 Repo-pkgs : 231 Repo-size : 4.5 G Repo-mirrors : https://rhui2-cds01.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/mirror/content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/rh-common/os Repo-baseurl : https://rhui2-cds02.ap-south-1.aws.ce.redhat.com/pulp/repos//content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/7/7Server/x86_64/rh-common/os/ (1 more) Repo-expire : 21,600 second(s) (last: Mon Jan 8 19:23:13 2018) Filter : read-only:present Repo-filename: /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui.repo Repo-id : rsawaroha Repo-name : rsaw aroha rpms for Fedora/RHEL6+ Repo-revision: 1507778106 Repo-updated : Thu Oct 12 03:15:06 2017 Repo-pkgs : 19 Repo-size : 1.4 M Repo-baseurl : http://people.redhat.com/rsawhill/rpms Repo-expire : 21,600 second(s) (last: Mon Jan 8 18:02:10 2018) Filter : read-only:present Repo-filename: /etc/yum.repos.d/rsawaroha.repo repolist: 30,581
List enabled YUM repositories
Under YUM you have the choice to enable or disable repositories. During yum operations like installation of packages only enabled repositories are scanned/contacted to perform operations.
To view only enabled repositories in YUM, use yum repolist enabled
[root@kerneltalks ~]# yum repolist enabled Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb, search-disabled-repos repo id repo name status *epel/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64 12,448 rhui-REGION-client-config-server-7/x86_64 Red Hat Update Infrastructure 2.0 Client Configuration Server 7 2 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (RPMs) 17,881 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-rh-common/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 RH Common (RPMs) 231 rsawaroha rsaw aroha rpms for Fedora/RHEL6+ 19 repolist: 30,581
List disabled YUM repositories
Similarly, you can list only disabled yum repositories as well. Use yum repolist disabled
[root@kerneltalks ~]# yum repolist disabled Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb, search-disabled-repos repo id repo name epel-debuginfo/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64 - Debug epel-source/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64 - Source epel-testing/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - Testing - x86_64 epel-testing-debuginfo/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - Testing - x86_64 - Debug epel-testing-source/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - Testing - x86_64 - Source rhui-REGION-rhel-server-debug-extras/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Extra Debug (Debug RPMs) rhui-REGION-rhel-server-debug-optional/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Optional Debug (Debug RPMs) rhui-REGION-rhel-server-debug-rh-common/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 RH Common Debug (Debug RPMs) rhui-REGION-rhel-server-debug-rhscl/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 RHSCL Debug (Debug RPMs) rhui-REGION-rhel-server-debug-supplementary/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Supplementary Debug (Debug RPMs) rhui-REGION-rhel-server-extras/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Extra(RPMs) rhui-REGION-rhel-server-optional/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Optional (RPMs) rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases-debug/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Debug (Debug RPMs) rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases-source/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (SRPMs) rhui-REGION-rhel-server-rhscl/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 RHSCL (RPMs) rhui-REGION-rhel-server-source-extras/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Extra (SRPMs) rhui-REGION-rhel-server-source-optional/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Optional (SRPMs) rhui-REGION-rhel-server-source-rh-common/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 RH Common (SRPMs) rhui-REGION-rhel-server-source-rhscl/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 RHSCL (SRPMs) rhui-REGION-rhel-server-source-supplementary/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Supplementary (SRPMs) rhui-REGION-rhel-server-supplementary/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Supplementary (RPMs) repolist: 0
List all configured YUM repositories
List all YUM repositories available on server.
[root@kerneltalks ~]# yum repolist all Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb, search-disabled-repos repo id repo name status *epel/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64 enabled: 12,448 epel-debuginfo/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64 - Debug disabled epel-source/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64 - Source disabled epel-testing/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - Testing - x86_64 disabled epel-testing-debuginfo/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - Testing - x86_64 - Debug disabled epel-testing-source/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - Testing - x86_64 - Source disabled rhui-REGION-client-config-server-7/x86_64 Red Hat Update Infrastructure 2.0 Client Configuration Server 7 enabled: 2 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-debug-extras/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Extra Debug (Debug RPMs) disabled rhui-REGION-rhel-server-debug-optional/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Optional Debug (Debug RPMs) disabled rhui-REGION-rhel-server-debug-rh-common/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 RH Common Debug (Debug RPMs) disabled rhui-REGION-rhel-server-debug-rhscl/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 RHSCL Debug (Debug RPMs) disabled rhui-REGION-rhel-server-debug-supplementary/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Supplementary Debug (Debug RPMs) disabled rhui-REGION-rhel-server-extras/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Extra(RPMs) disabled rhui-REGION-rhel-server-optional/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Optional (RPMs) disabled rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (RPMs) enabled: 17,881 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases-debug/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Debug (Debug RPMs) disabled rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases-source/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (SRPMs) disabled rhui-REGION-rhel-server-rh-common/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 RH Common (RPMs) enabled: 231 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-rhscl/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 RHSCL (RPMs) disabled rhui-REGION-rhel-server-source-extras/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Extra (SRPMs) disabled rhui-REGION-rhel-server-source-optional/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Optional (SRPMs) disabled rhui-REGION-rhel-server-source-rh-common/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 RH Common (SRPMs) disabled rhui-REGION-rhel-server-source-rhscl/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 RHSCL (SRPMs) disabled rhui-REGION-rhel-server-source-supplementary/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Supplementary (SRPMs) disabled rhui-REGION-rhel-server-supplementary/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 Supplementary (RPMs) disabled rsawaroha rsaw aroha rpms for Fedora/RHEL6+ enabled: 19 repolist: 30,581
List all available packages in repositories
To list all available packages for installation from all repositories use below command –
[root@kerneltalks ~]# yum list available |more Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb, search-disabled-repos Available Packages 2048-cli.x86_64 0.9.1-1.el6 epel 2048-cli-nocurses.x86_64 0.9.1-1.el6 epel 2ping.noarch 3.2.1-2.el6 epel 389-admin.i686 1.1.35-1.el6 epel 389-admin.x86_64 1.1.35-1.el6 epel 389-admin-console.noarch 1.1.8-1.el6 epel 389-admin-console-doc.noarch 1.1.8-1.el6 epel 389-adminutil.i686 1.1.19-1.el6 epel 389-adminutil.x86_64 1.1.19-1.el6 epel 389-adminutil-devel.i686 1.1.19-1.el6 epel 389-adminutil-devel.x86_64 1.1.19-1.el6 epel 389-console.noarch 1.1.7-1.el6 epel 389-ds.noarch 1.2.2-1.el6 epel 389-ds-base.x86_64 1.3.6.1-24.el7_4 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 389-ds-base-libs.x86_64 1.3.6.1-24.el7_4 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 389-ds-console.noarch 1.2.6-1.el6 epel 389-ds-console-doc.noarch 1.2.6-1.el6 epel 389-dsgw.x86_64 1.1.11-1.el6 epel
List packages from the particular repository
yum list available command is useful to list all available packages. If you want to list packages from the particular repository then use below switches –
disablerepo="*" which will exclude all repos from scanning
enablerepo="<repo>" which will include only your desired repo to scan for packages.
[root@kerneltalks ~]# yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="rsawaroha" list available Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb, search-disabled-repos Available Packages Rebooty-inspector.noarch 0.3.0-1 rsawaroha pyrite.noarch 1.0.2-1 rsawaroha ravshello.x86_64 1.35.0-1 rsawaroha reboot-guard.x86_64 1.0.1-1 rsawaroha rhsecapi.x86_64 1.0.1-1 rsawaroha rhv-manage-hosts.noarch 0.5-1 rsawaroha rsar.noarch 0.1.1-1 rsawaroha upvm.x86_64 0.10.8-1 rsawaroha valine.noarch 0.7.4-1 rsawaroha
In the above command, we listed all packages available under repo name rsawaroha
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